His primary research interests are in computer science theory and the
design and analysis of algorithms, with a particular emphasis on
social networks, algorithms for feature selection, and game-theoretic
and pricing questions. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the
VSoE Junior Research Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, a Sloan
Fellowship, and an Okawa Fellowship, in addition to several USC
mentoring awards.

Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of
Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research
focuses on algorithmic issues at the interface of networks and information,
with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the
Web and other on-line media.

He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and is the recipient of
awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Nevanlinna Prize, the Harvey
Prize, the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
in the Computing Sciences.

Éva Tardos is a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of
Computer Science at Cornell University.
Her research interest is algorithms and algorithmic
game theory, the subarea of theoretical computer science theory of designing
systems and algorithms for selfish users. Her research focuses on algorithms
and games on networks.

She has been elected to the National Academy of
Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, is an external member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and is the recipient of a number of
fellowships and awards including the Packard Fellowship, the
Gödel Prize,
Dantzig Prize, Fulkerson Prize, and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award.
She was editor editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal of Computing 2004--2009,
and is currently an editor of several other journals including the
Journal of the ACM and Combinatorica.